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| For CPI, high voter turnout in J&K meaningless | | Batting for greater autonomy | | Neha
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 29: Don't get disturbed when Kashmiri separatists, the so-called mainstream parties like the NC, Kashmiri commentator, Kashmiri opinion-makers and perverted members of civil society say that elections and Kashmir issue are two different issues and that the high voter turnout in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in state, including Kashmir Valley, don't mean the enhancement of Kashmiris' faith in the Indian political system and Indian democracy or that they are not a race apart. They make such ridiculous, provocative and communally-motivated claims because they have never ever considered India their state and that they always stood for a dispensation that was outside the Indian and political organization of India.
All of them represent vested interests and communal forces; all of them are backward-looking and reactionary; all of them represent medieval thinking; and all believe in that pernicious two-nation theory that culminated in the communal partition of India and bloodshed, displacement of population and destruction on an unprecedented scale in August 1947. They do create problems for New Delhi at regular intervals. But they are not the only mischief-mongers, trouble-makers and enemies of the nation. We have in our country parties like the Communist Party of India (CPI) which miss no opportunity to make common cause with the anti-national and anti-democratic forces in the Valley and speak the same language.
Only the other day, the CPI prepared a draft resolution that said that "the large voter turnout in the Assembly elections does not mean that the basic (in this case Kashmir) problem is over". The CPI's draft political resolution will be, according to reports, placed next month for ratification before its highest policy making body, the Party Congress, which is convened every three years. The nasty draft resolution was released by CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy in Delhi, which also advocated withdrawal of the AFSPA. "While talking to Pakistan to resolve the issue, the Centre should take concrete steps to grant adequate autonomy to the state…Over 70 per cent of the people in Jammu and Kashmir had participated in the Assembly elections. This should not lead to the misconception that the problem is over," the resolution further said. Not only this, the CPI also demanded a "special economic package" and urged New Delhi to create an environment conducive for a "negotiated permanent solution" of the so-called Kashmir problem. What the draft resolution said is self-explanatory. It suggests that there is no fundamental difference between what the anti-national forces in Kashmir and the parties like the CPI think about Jammu & Kashmir. It is disturbing that there is hardly anyone in Kashmir and in the parties like the CPI, the CPI-M and so on who is prepared to accept the realities in the state, including the fact that an overwhelming majority of population in Jammu and Ladakh, besides the over three lakh internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus, are the ardent believers in the concept of India and that their battle-cry all along has been complete integration into India. The outcome of the recently-held Lok Sabha and Assembly elections only proved the point that they the people of Jammu and Ladakh voted overwhelmingly for national integration, peace and development. When will the parties like the CPI appreciate the ground realities as they have been existing in the state ever since its formation in March 1846? They should remember that Jammu and Ladakh, besides Kashmiri Hindus, have not given power of attorney to parties like the CPI or those in Kashmir who question the state's political status. |
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